Genetic scientist claims mitochondrial DNA research confirms that our common female ancestor lived within the biblical timeline–no more than several thousand years ago.

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A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that electromagnetic currents directed at the right temperoparieto junction (tpj), located just above and behind the right ear (the same location mentioned above from Exodus 29:20 where the priests were to be anointed that they might hear from God), can impair a person’s ability to make moral judgments by inducing a current which disrupts this region of the brain…

Many scholars who were initially opposed to Dr. Collins’s theory now concede that history books may need to be rewritten in light of his groundbreaking discovery. It—along with several other recent finds—is challenging the assumptions of academics and asserting a new voice in the controversy of biblical archaeology and the dispute over using the Bible as a credible historical source…

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Major Shift in Science Underway, Intuition Could Play Big Role: Expert Discusses Intuition is something fuzzy and abstract, right? Science should be clear, solid, and tangible … right? These two seemingly inimical “ways of knowing” could, nonetheless, mingle well. And Dr. William H. Kautz thinks the future of science counts on it. Dr. Kautz received his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)…

Surprise! The Next-Generation Nanomachines Are Already Inside You Inside every living cell are molecule-building factories called ribosomes. These tiny machines read blueprints of genetic information and fabricate the molecules that make up all life. They are hugely important to genetic engineers and researchers, because controlling ribosomes could be the way to synthesize the custom-made biological nano-machines of the future—ones that could make anything from therapeutic human antibodies to the next generation of…

Drug Companies Look to ‘Real-Life’ Superheroes’ DNA For Medical Advancements And Solutions Steven Pete has a rare genetic disorder that doesn’t allow him to feel pain. He inherited two different mutations, one from each parent, that combined to form his condition. Timothy Dreyer has another quality that wouldn’t seem out of place in the pages of Marvel comics: He’s one of about 100 people with sclerosteosis, a condition that makes his bones so dense, his skeleton can withstand damage that would break those of ordinary people. Like Pete, he wound up with his rare condition because of mutations from each parent that combined in his DNA.

U.S. State Dept. Bars Christians From Testifying About Persecution During the height of one of the most brutal months of Muslim persecution of Christians, the U.S. State Department exposed its double standards against persecuted Christian minorities. Sister Diana, an influential Iraqi Christian leader, who was scheduled to visit the U.S. to advocate for persecuted Christians in the Mideast, was denied a visa by the U.S. State Department even though she had visited the U.S. before, most recently in 2012.

Destination America To Televise Live ExorcismDestination America will televise what it’s calling the first live exorcism in U.S. history, airing Exorcism: Live! on Oct. 30. A house, not a person, will be the subject of the exorcism, which will take place at the same suburban St. Louis home where an exorcism was performed on Roland Doe in 1949. That event inspired William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel The Exorcist and its iconic 1973 film adaptation, which starred Linda Blair.

ISIS Plans To Trigger Armageddon In Pakistan And India An apparent Islamic State (IS) recruitment document found in Pakistan has revealed that the terrorist organisation plans to target Pakistan and India and create an Armageddon-like “end of the world”. USA Today reports, IS aims to build a new terrorist army in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The 32-page document in Urdu details a plot to attack US soldiers as they withdraw from Afghanistan and target American diplomats and Pakistani officials. After reviewing the documents, US intelligence officials have confirmed its authenticity…

Planned Parenthood Video Vs. Cecil The Lion: Animal’s Death Worse Than Baby Deaths? The Planned Parenthood video outraged some Americans, but it seems the world has exploded over Cecil the lion’s death. Now, some in the abortion political battle are saying it is disturbing that an animal’s death is considered to be more shocking than the alleged trafficking of human baby parts […] Regardless, the incident went viral, sparking outrage across the globe. Some have become so angry about the lion’s death that they have compared the animal’s death to human deaths.

U.S. Military: We’ve Worked Out The Bugs And The Dawn Of “Directed Energy Weapons” Is Here The U.S. military has made strides in developing lasers, microwaves and other directed energy weapons, and could soon use them more widely, top armed forces officials and U.S. lawmakers told an industry conference on Tuesday. The officials described weapons that are in various stages of development and testing by the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Army, but said more work was needed to scale up the technology for larger weapons, develop tactics for their use, and ensure sufficient funding.

Here’s Why The Mark Of The Beast Will Take Off Biohackers, people who modify their body with technology like chip implants, are going to tattoo parlors, conferences, and “implant parties” to get these kinds of devices implanted. While meshing machine with human flesh sounds outlandish to some, biohackers consider themselves pioneers and argue the practice is actually the natural progression of how we will interact with technology. “The human body is the next big platform…

Maya Shrine Reveals ‘New World Order’ A stunning and unexpected discovery in Guatemala is providing researchers with important new information on the fierce rivalry between two Maya superpowers that raged during the apex of the empire some 1500 years ago.

Five Consequences Of America’s Moral Collapse The great Samuel Adams once said, “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”

Pope Francis, she darkly warned, prayed with Muslim leaders and said that the faiths should be partners, not enemies, which, LeClaire darkly warned, has been seen by some “as a precursor to the one world religion.” She then fell back on what some Christian mystics believe are a series of prophetic warnings about the fate of the church. “Here’s what we know: More than 50 years ago, a Jesuit priest predicted the resignation of Pope Benedict — to the day — and now Tom Horn…

I was interviewed for this new documentary film INHUMAN. Years in the making, this controversial film features some of the top minds on both sides of the issue. As a Christian with a supernatural worldview I present a thought experiment (a future uploading scenario to consider possible outcomes) which demonstrates that “consciousness uploading” will not work. Naturalists do not understand consciousness. Because mind is much more than patterns of data, one cannot become immortal by uploading one’s brain data to a computer. The thought experiment scenario I offered makes///

New technologies that allow us to edit the genes of animals could end some of those inhumane practices […] Right now, there’s a question of whether or not regulators will allow genetically modified cattle — and other creatures — to be sold. But multiple experts that Tech Insider spoke with said that they absolutely know what changes they’re making with genetic editing technology, and that there’s no reason to think that the words “genetic editing,” changing genes, imply anything unsafe.

A team of neurotheology researchers have replicated and confirmed the results of the iconic “God Helmet” experiment. The apparatus, originally developed by renowned neuroscientists, Stanley Koren and Michael Persinger, generates weak magnetic fields around the test subject’s temporal lobes, and elicits a distinct set of experiential phenomena in the participant’s brain, including: altered mystic states, visions of God, and the feeling of a sensed God-like presence.

That is right, the implantable. In the past decade of tech innovation, connectivity has been the name of the game. Call your friend in the middle of the night in Antarctica. Facetime with your sister on vacation in India. Talk about the movie you saw with friends in London. Anything is possible with the push of a button and now with the Apple AAPL -0.75% Watch, you can do it all with the twist of a dial. But this is just the beginning of what Silicon Valley has in store for us in the name of connectivity. We’re about to enter the next level of high tech innovation – connecting with yourself.

As the meeting concluded, the group stood to sing a song and the teacher began to pray for each person. As he prayed, people began to fall to the floor under the power of the Holy Spirit. Pedro knew he was in the presence of some kind of supernatural power as people were falling to the cement floor, but not getting hurt. Then the teacher came to Pedro. “We were eye-to-eye when he began to pray and boom! It was like an explosion,” Pedro says. “I fell to the ground, but it felt like falling on a bed. My body began to shake like crazy. I felt this power like electricity going through my head, feet, legs, hands…

In fact, the cavernous, hollowed-out mines operated by a company called Underground Vaults and Storage actually is the doomsday plan for a handful of anonymous, paranoid preppers. “I can’t mention their names, but, as part of their agreement with us, there are probably a half dozen people who have apartments down there,” Lee Spence, the company’s president, told me when I visited earlier this month. “They have their own supplies, it is their backup plan in the case of a nuclear attack or something.”

It is not a time to check out of the game but reconsecrate ourselves to prayer and be ready for whatever will unfold in the months ahead. I sense dramatic change coming, judgments and severe economic upheaval. Did you observe the people in Greece in panic because they could not withdraw their money from the banks or ATMs? Returning from Washington, D.C., where I lived for 24 years, you can pick up the whiff of something immanent in the air. Prophetic leader Gary Kah warn us: “Never before have so many signs of the times manifested simultaneously. Watching the evening news is like witnessing the prophecies of Scripture unfold before our eyes…

In the US, poverty, deprivation and exploitation draw thousands of its own children down into a dark underworld that offers few ways out. It is a world few Americans are aware of. But tens of thousands of American children are thought to be sexually exploited every year. It’s believed that every night hundreds are sold for sex. The FBI says child sex abuse is almost at an epidemic level, despite the agency rescuing 600 children last year. “Trafficking” often conjures images of people from other countries being smuggled over land and across the sea and then forced to work against their will in foreign lands. People are trafficked into America…

For three weeks on the Jewish calendar, beginning on the 17th of the month of Tammuz (when the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem in the year 70), and culminating with a national day of mourning on the 9th of the month of Av when the Temple was destroyed, we are especially mindful of our actions and the sincerity of our prayers so that we will merit the return of the Temple as the center of our lives physically, not just in our prayers.